{"id":221481,"date":"2020-08-28T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/countries\/turks-caicos-islands"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:18:27","slug":"turks-caicos-islands","status":"publish","type":"countries","link":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/caribbean\/turks-caicos-islands-travel","title":{"rendered":"Turks &#038; Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Forgotten Islands<\/h3>\n<p>A long stretch of 300 islands, filled with mangrove forests and limestone caves and surrounded by phenomenal coral reefs. Only eight of the &#8216;forgotten&#8217; <strong>Turks &#038; Caicos islands<\/strong> are inhabited. <\/p>\n<h4>Divers paradise<\/h4>\n<p>Enjoy fresh fish and seafood in this diver&#8217;s paradise. You&#8217;ll swim past forests of black coral among large schools of horse mackerel, sawfish, snappers, barracudas, and many other marine creatures. <\/p>\n<h4>Culture in Cockburn Town and Ripsaw Music<\/h4>\n<p>Relax on the beautiful white-sand beaches, but be sure to visit the capital, <strong>Cockburn Town<\/strong>, where you can admire stunning historic colonial-style buildings while meeting the hospitable and laid-back locals. During your trip, you\u2019re sure to discover \u201cRipsaw Music,\u201d a musical genre that originated on the islands, in which a knife is scraped across a hand saw. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Islands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36395,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"country":[],"continent_category":[423],"class_list":["post-221481","countries","type-countries","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","continent_category-caribbean"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries\/221481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/countries"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=221481"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=221481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}